Quotes About Horror

They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime.

Time leeches most horror and pain from our memories.

Tran Thi Thu Van, the writer from Saigon, spent those weeks wandering in the wasteland of the battle trying to stay alive. She would later record scene after scene of horror in her book Mourning Headband for Hue.

It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.

Horrorshow is right, friend. A real show of horrors.

He (The warden) was painfully afraid of a disagreement with any person in any subject....he felt horror at the thought of being made the subject of common gossip and public criticism.

The camps have a fascination in their revoltingness.

And when we tell ourselves we have reached the paroxysm of horror, blood and flouted laws of poetry that consecrates revolt, we obliged to advance still further into an endless vertigo.

Pues mi ser es bello pero espantoso. Y sólo es bello porque es espantoso.

The smell of roasted flesh permeated the air for hours afterwards with the stench of oily-black smoke from the blazing vehicles . Gräbner's body was never identified among all the other carbonized corpses.

At this point, there flashed briefly through Stenton's horrified mind the memory of that timeless classic, H. G. Wells's "The Star." He had first read it as a small boy, and it had helped to spark his interest in astronomy.

My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.

I can understand. There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination, there is no horror.

Dove non c'è immaginazione, non c'è orrore.

The abominable goth! he cried.

They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Pero me horroriza la aburrida rutina de la existencia. Tengo ansias de exaltación mental.

He screams like a girl if he has to watch a horror movie. Caleb Hey! Nick Well, you do. I Tried to watch Child's Play and you ran off to hide during the opening credits. And then he had to go sleep with his mom in her bed for three days because he was so scared. Caleb Dude! You promised me you weren't going to tell anyone about that. Nick

She turned her car onto the last stretch of straight drive leading her directly, face to face, to Hill House and, moving without thought, pressed her foot on the brake to stall the car and sat, staring. The house was vile. She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.

Horror is made of such base material—so easily rejected or dismissed—that it may be hard to accept my postulate that within the genre lies one of the last refuges of spirituality in this, our materialistic world. But it is a fact that, through the ages, most storytellers have had to resort to the fantastic in order to elevate their discourse to the level of parable.

It is my hope to, one day, share my love for HPL with the world.

She shivered and though, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.

She shivered and thought, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.